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Ronel Blanco Sticky Stuff Ejection · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Carlin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by C Keith. This is episode 433.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host, Nate
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  So was it last episode? Was the episode before we were
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  what we were talking about? Me singing Sinatra, that's what
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  Yep. Yep.
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  Episode 3, I believe it was. So you gave me a little
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  inspiration and I went back and listen to a couple of the old
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  embarrassing, dude. I went back and it was it, It
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  was like, if you. So tell me if you remember this.
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  It would be like for me it'd be like what up?
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  What up. Welcome back to the three O
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  people and you'd be like what are people.
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  So rest assured, we we have. Since we we've got it straight
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  I'd like to think so. I think we bring a little bit, a
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  little bit more to the table with these intros and just
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  episodes in general. So we're growing.
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  Growth. Nothing was worse is when we
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  when I first came on that first episode when I was shaky.
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  Oh, hi. Gross.
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  What happened? Glad to be on the podcast.
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  What was that? I don't know, man.
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  I don't know. I think I got, I got lost in the
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  followers. You were like telling me all
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  this stuff and I was looking at Facebook, you know, like, I
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  think I want to do a podcast. And then you're going, this
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  guy's probably got like a million listeners on his
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  podcast. We've.
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  Got a lot of people listening. Oh man, now I don't even
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  remember what I say, you know, it's it's all just flows out of
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  me and I have no idea if I'm even correct or not.
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  He just blacks out for an hour. Let's let's talk some baseball.
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  Sure. Ronell Blanco, actually, pause.
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  You know what, I don't want to talk about Renell Blanco just
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  yet. There's something, there's
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  something a little more pressing that we have to address.
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  Yeah, look, the the Oakland ace. I mean the the biggest let down
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  in the history of let downs. I mean what was that?
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  Hold on. I need to I need to pull up that
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  that that tweet I sent you. All right.
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  So this Oakland A's bet as a reminder like a week or so ago
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  Nate said over the next 14 games the Oakland A's will not go,
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  will not play 500 or better baseball.
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  And I said they absolutely will. Let's bet on it.
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  So we determined that the loser of the BET for like once the BET
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  complete is completed, we'll have to wear a Oakland A's gold
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  polo and an Oakland A's green green visor for every episode
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  until the All Star Break, which I think amounts to like a dozen
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  episodes. Delightful.
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  I felt so confident with the way that the A's had been playing.
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  And. Just certain guys.
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  OK, so according to Underdog fantasy, this was a tweet I sent
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  you. The Oakland A's since April 28th
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  and this was as of May 14th, LED baseball and homers.
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  LED baseball and runs scored. LED baseball and RB is LED
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  baseball and OPS. Brent Rooker, JJ Bladet, Abraham
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  Toro, and Shay Langleers AKA Shay Bangleers all have an OPS
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  over 1000 during this time and that.
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  Again, that was as of May 14th. So I'm going.
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  I was on to something there. Like I was feeling good for the
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  right reasons but just weren't getting dubs.
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  So as it stands right now, and it's very possible by the time
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  you're hearing this, the A's will have lost their game
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  tonight, Wednesday night, bringing the bet to a close.
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  Because as it stands right now, they need to win out for the
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  next 5 games for me to finish at 500.
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  So that's where we're at with that bet.
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  So by next episode we will more more than likely know the result
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  of this wager, but just wanted to yeah, wanted to provide that.
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  Update Get a good look at Casey now 'cause this will be the last
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  time you see him in streets. Just gonna be in the Billy Bean
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  uniform. I thought about.
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  I thought about showing up like a collared shirt, just to let
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  you know. Ease in a little bit.
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  Maybe feel a little bit professional before I just turn
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  this into a clown show with the Billy Bean look, but yeah, alas,
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  here we are all. Right.
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  Are you? Are you?
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  First off, are you a little nervous about the hairline?
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  Has that come? Has that crept into the thought
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  process? No, I think the visor will, I
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  think we'll be good. I I think we'll be all right
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  there, I think. It's disappointing 'cause that's
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  what I'm looking forward to most.
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  Well, I'm just gonna. I'm gonna manipulate the visor
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  whatever way I need to, to make sure that that's not an issue.
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  So and I was thinking about it. I don't know if I've ever not
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  worn a hat on this, on this podcast.
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  I think of the 433 episodes. I don't know if I've ever not
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  worn. AI think there was one.
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  I think there was one. I remember I remember it.
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  I was pretty surprised by it. I don't know if that ever
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  happened. I don't know why it seemed like
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  a random thing. I don't know who does the
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  laundry more, you or Meredith? Let's say it's a healthy.
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  Split seeing that that gold polo in there.
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  Yep, that'll be fun. That'll be fun.
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  That'll be a lot of gold. Oakland A's green and gold for
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  the next next couple months. But enough of that.
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  Let's talk Renell Blanco. So in the 4th inning of last
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  night's last night being Tuesday night's game against the
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  aforementioned Oakland Athletics, a game in which the
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  Astros only won two to one. By the way, I don't care how
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  poorly the the Houston Astros are doing or how good I think
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  the Oakland as are that that should not be a score coming out
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  of that match up. But 4th inning the umpires come
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  out, they go into full on inspection mode after handful of
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  minutes. Joe Espade is out there, Blancos
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  out there. The infielders have have
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  corralled around the the the mound.
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  The verdict was that Ronaldo Blanco could not continue his
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  outing, that he would be ejected.
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  And the news broke today actually that he was dealt A10
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  game suspension and a fine. So where where do we go?
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  Where do we go with this? Where where do we start?
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  Because there's there's so many angles we could take.
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  We could talk about the the hypocrisy of of umpiring crews
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  when it comes to this issue. We could talk about how stupid
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  you'd have to be as a pitcher to intentionally use some sort of
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  stuff substance, especially on the inner palm of your glove.
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  Where do we want to start here We could start with the quote
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  from the umpire that said it was he said it was the stickiest
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  stuff I've felt on a glove since we've been doing this for a few
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  years now which I thought I'd I mean if you're.
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  I just don't know if you're stupid enough to use a substance
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  substance intentionally Why and it and it was that sticky why
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  are you putting it in that in that location I don't know where
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  do where do we go? Who was the umpire?
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  I I saw the video. Was it Las Diaz?
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  Yeah, yeah, he was the third Tuesday night.
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  OK, so let's let's take that a little bit.
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  Obviously the crew chief, right. So we got to take that into
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  account I believe. So I think he's a crew chief.
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  Yeah, Eric Bacchus was the guy that was handling the glove, it
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  seems. I mean they, I think they all
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  pass it around, but I think I saw that he was the guy that was
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  confiscating the glove, as it were.
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  But yeah, I I think last Diaz was right there in the mix.
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  Yeah, let's take that into account.
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  I don't know, I it's it's so hard.
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  I'm not going to do the whole the easy, you know, Astros
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  cheating. I think you and I are kind of
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  both over that at. This point be done, baseball
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  fans, What are we? Come on.
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  Yeah, this guy. I mean, 95% of the roster wasn't
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  involved with that. So kind of over it.
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  I don't know, man. I don't know.
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  Like I I got to imagine that no one's intentionally doing this
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  right now. Whether you're testing the
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  envelope a little bit, like pushing the envelope and like
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  testing the borders of how much sunscreen you're putting on or
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  what you're or are you just using the rosin on the back of
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  the mountain? That's what he claimed it was.
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  It was just rosin. We've seen that.
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  We've seen the videos, you know that the famous videos of Bauer
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  doing the the rosin and and sunscreen and a ball just
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  sticking to his palm with no fingers on it.
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  It's so subjective. It's so subjective, like how
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  many umpires are cracking down, How many umpires are really like
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  sticking their hand inside of the glove as much as what we
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  saw, how how many guys are, you know, it comes that like clip
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  with the old guy doing the security check at the you know,
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  not touching anybody. Like how many umpires are doing
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  that? How many umpires aren't how many
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  I It's just it's hard for me to imagine a pitcher today doing
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  this when there's so many checks.
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  When there's so many checks, I I I got to imagine.
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  I got to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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  That's what I'm going to say. I'm just going to give the
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  benefit out. I I'm not going to say like
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  ignorance. I'm going to say like I don't
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  think he was doing anything. I don't think he was using
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  anything. I think he was using what's
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  given to him and you're in a humid environment in Texas with.
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  Sweating buckets. Indoors, sweating and you know,
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  using rosin I, that's what I that's what I'm leaning towards.
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  What was interesting though, I saw, I saw something today
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  regarding those checks that you mentioned because I agree like
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  some some umpires are very much like all right, I I want to be
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  doing this about as little as you want to be doing this.
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  Let's just get this over with whatever.
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  Then there's some guys that you see on the broadcast as you're
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  going to commercial break on TV that are are certainly more
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  intentional with with their checks doing doing their job to
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  the best of their abilities. I guess I don't know whatever
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  you want to chalk it up to. But I saw something that said
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  that Bacchus or Bacchus, whatever you call him, the the
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  first base umpire said that there was nothing on his glove
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  during the check in between or in the middle of the first
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  inning. But then he found something when
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  he did his second check, the time when all this started to
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  unfold in the 4th. So we went three innings without
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  a check 'cause no. It's possible they may, I don't
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  know, like do they rotate checks or something.
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  I I don't know because he he said that he he references, he
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  referenced it as his second check.
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  So I don't know if if there are, if there are, if there's like a
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  rotation. And regarding the checks or not,
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  I don't know if it's the same guy every time or what.
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  But yeah, yeah. So I don't know.
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  I don't know what to take of that.
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  I don't buy. I don't see the reason for it
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  and just like logically and I'm not going to go down the road of
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  like, oh, is this why he's had such a great start to the year.
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  Not I'm not pulling at that string.
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  We see numerous checks every game.
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  So like I'm not. I'm not I'm not going to sit
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  there and say that I I don't think he meant to do this it I
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  don't think there was any intent to it.
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  I it just doesn't make sense. You're you're having an
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  incredible start to the season you've you've begun what is very
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  much a a breakout conversation. You've established yourself
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  you're you're already doing well.
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  You're on a team that is fighting to get back.
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  You're one of the only starters that's been super consistent.
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  It just doesn't make sense as to why he would do it.
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  So I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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  Now I'm leaning towards rosin and sticky sweat.
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  Renault Blanco says he asked the umpire to check his hands
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  because if there's something sticky in the glove, it should
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  be on his hands. They didn't check his hands, he
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  said. He thinks Rosin and he said he
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  thinks it's rosin and he didn't know it's illegal for it to get
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  on your non pitching hand. So I don't know what to make of
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  that quote necessarily but I I the the part that I focus on
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  there is where he talks about how common sense would tell you
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  like if it's in his glove it should be on his hands and then
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  they just chose not to. I don't know if that's confirmed
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  that's that's coming from the mouth of Renell Blanco.
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  I mean, I'm sure you can go back and and dissect the video a
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  little bit more, but like how are we not?
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  If you're doing all this investigating of the glove, why
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  not? Why not the hands?
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  Which brings me to the the bigger issue for me, you going
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  back to the the word that you use subjective.
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  The whole process by which these umpires go through in terms of
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  determining what level of stickiness has to be achieved
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  for an ejection to take place or or whatever.
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  Or what steps need to be taken to avoid an ejection such as
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  allow. Oh I don't know, allowing a guy
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  to go wash his hands. I mean, we talked.
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  We broke that down. I mean that's happened on
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  multiple occasions. I think 2 instances I can think
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  of where the Yankees alone. I think Domingo Herman at one
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  point was allowed to wash his hands and I want to say Clay
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  Holmes was another guy maybe a maybe a year or two ago or may
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  have been recent. I don't remember.
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  But I I feel like he was a name that popped up recently.
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  But it's just like what are we, what kind of system are we
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  following here? If some guys are allowed to wash
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  their hands and some guys aren't, it just it.
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  It to me, I I I I feel like umpires just wake up.
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  Not just with this, but with anything these days.
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  I just feel like umpires are waking up going, what do I feel?
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  What What call do I feel like making today?
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  What? What?
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  I'm saying what? Rule book do I feel like
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  adhering to today? And they just.
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  Go with it. That's why Las Diaz has to be
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  this. There has to be a part of the
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  conversation and taking into account, because we've seen
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  numerous of times that he is pretty confrontational when he
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  gets pushed, it's almost like certain umpires are seeking this
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  stuff. And again, of course, I mean,
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  what do we get? We get one quote, we get one
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  sentence. Then every time this happens,
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  it's an umpire saying it's, it's the stickiest they've ever felt.
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  I don't know, man, I we need some type of structure to this.
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  But I agree, like, why not change gloves?
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  You got to use someone else's gloves.
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  Sorry. Wash your hands.
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  Go get a new glove. Like what?
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  Why not? Why can't that be a thing?
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  Call me crazy, would this would this course of action not make
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  the most sense? OK, it's the third inning.
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  You check there's nothing there. Comes back out for the pitches.
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  The 4th? You check there's something
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  there. Rather than assume that he's
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  using Spider Tack or a combination of gasoline and and
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  Vaseline, I don't know. Whatever.
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  Whatever they're they're assuming that these guys are
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  using to get some sort of competitive advantage.
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  Rather than assume the worst, why not just have the next step
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  in the course of action Just be Go wash your hands, change your
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  glove, and let's get back to the game.
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  It's always got to be some type of production.
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  It's always got to be this big thing.
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  If you checked at the beginning of the guy's outing and didn't
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  check again until the end, OK, I could understand why an
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  objection would be warranted because guys would then be able
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  to just get away with whatever they want.
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  But you're checking every inning, So what kind of
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  advantage is he really garnering in a in 1/2 inning because you
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  said you checked? Right.
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  And then checked again. What you're saying is like the
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  checks mean that everything else is clear.
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  Everything that was gotten to this point.
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  Correct. Cleared.
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  So like, all we need to do is, you know, go wash change and
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  we're back to where we were. We're all clear, Yeah.
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  I mean if I I understand like if you stick your hand in there and
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  it's it's like Maple syrup coming out, OK, you're gone.
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  But like if if you have to sit there for minutes at a time for
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  these, for these checks, for these reviews to determine
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  whether it's just an ejection is warranted, that that really
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  tells me that it's so borderline to being something that you
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  would arguably deem like appropriate, acceptable.
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  So if that's the case, then I I don't know.
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  I just, I I I don't understand the the subjectivity of it.
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  For something like this, I feel like there should be a little
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  bit more. There should be a a more set in
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  place course of action that follows.
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  You know, a a red flag being raised where it's a oh, OK,
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  whoa, whoa there. We got a little something here.
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  OK, well, then do something else besides just toss the guy and
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  then suspend him and fine him. I'm not saying condone cheating.
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  As it were. But, like, if the guy's not
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  cheating and it's just truly a a mixture of him sweating buckets
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  and the rosin that he's using that you've told him he can use
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  that's on the back of the mound, then what are like, What are we
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  really doing? Here.
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  Yeah. Does he think the suspension
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  gets appealed and dropped down at all?
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  Or no, he I saw, I saw just before we hopped on that, he
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  said. He's started.
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  He's starting it tonight, so it's already been accepted,
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  which I I felt was also strange cause like you know, he's trying
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  to defend himself. You got other people in the
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  baseball community, it seems they're trying to you know bring
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  bring some inject some sense into this conversation, 'cause
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  it's clearly lacking with the umpires.
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  But then he just kind of, I, I don't want to say falls on his
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  sword, but you know, just it's like I I'm not going to fight
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  it. Well, like why not fight it?
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  Like, if you if you truly believe that the situation was
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  mishandled, then why are we just taking the hit there, especially
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  with the way you've been throwing it.
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  Like I I'm sure, I'm sure A10 game suspension's not going to
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  throw them too far off track, but like, why risk it?
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  You know, it goes. On your record, I think it's
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  it's like getting a speeding ticket, you know what I'm
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  saying? Like when you know you're a good
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  driver and all of a sudden you, you just get caught on on a bad
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  day, it sits on the record. You're like, it's not fair.
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  It's not fair. I don't know, man.
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  It is what it is, I guess now. I mean, it's it's done.
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  It's just. I don't know.
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  But there's got to be some kind of system moving forward.
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  There's got to be, I think maybe some warning.
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  Barring ridiculous tackiness. I don't know, Nestor.
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  That's who it was. Good call.
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  Yeah, it's Nestor and Domingo. I remember that.
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  I was going to say Clay Holmes didn't ring any bells, but.
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  Yeah, I don't know it. It's pun intended, It's a it's a
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  messy situation. I just.
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  I just wish that I wish the league could clean this up like
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  this. This issue has gone on far long
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  enough, like establish A substance that works for
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  everybody. That's what I'm saying, like
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  this and just move. Forward.
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  This is ridiculous. Yeah.
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  Like, keep the checks, whatever, I I get it.
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  Like even if you establish A substance, like that's with
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  that's with society. Like if you create a law, it
• 22:53
  doesn't mean people are going to follow it.
• 22:54
  But at the very least if you're creating a substance, you're
• 22:57
  you're getting everybody on the same page.
• 22:58
  And then you, you you maintain the checks and that way you can
• 23:02
  you can, you know, you can watch over it.
• 23:09
  I don't know it. But we're going to make this
• 23:11
  more confusing than it is to me because that seems to be what
• 23:14
  Major League Baseball likes to do.
• 23:17
  Speaking of confusing, I'm not. I'm not getting all the Ron
• 23:24
  Washington hate. I mean, I I get it.
• 23:27
  It's it was probably the most predictable outcome when we when
• 23:33
  we found out that he was taking this job as manager of the Los
• 23:37
  Angeles, CA Angels of Anaheim, LA, Angeles, California.
• 23:44
  But it's still it's still a little shocking like we we we
• 23:51
  knew this was coming because this is what happens to any
• 23:54
  manager regardless of their status in the game or with the
• 23:59
  with the respective franchise. This is a perfect example why I
• 24:03
  want Jason Vertec to stay put. I've said that for years now.
• 24:08
  I don't want his name ever mentioned in in conversations
• 24:12
  for Red Sox managerial vacancies.
• 24:15
  Ever. Stay put.
• 24:21
  What a wild, what a what a crazy way for this game to end on
• 24:26
  Tuesday. Or was it Wednesday?
• 24:30
  No, Today's Wednesday. Today's Wednesday.
• 24:32
  Tuesday night. Yeah. 76 Loss to the Cardinals
• 24:41
  Louis Giormei comes to the plate with the bases loaded and is
• 24:49
  given in the bottom of the eighth, and is given the the
• 24:51
  squeeze bunt sign. Or is informed that he needs to
• 24:55
  lay down a squeeze bunt whether it was before his at bat or
• 24:58
  during the at bat, or as his at bat was the beginning.
• 25:03
  At some point was given notice that he needed to lay a bunt
• 25:07
  down and boy did he not squeeze play.
• 25:12
  I think it was Zach Nido. He's making his way home from
• 25:16
  3rd so you could it it. We know it wasn't a safety
• 25:21
  squeeze. I don't know if it was a full on
• 25:25
  suicide squeeze because it did it it well.
• 25:29
  It seemed like it took Zach a minute to make it to the plate.
• 25:33
  Although he may be of he may be of you know hesitated a little
• 25:36
  bit maybe tried to make something out of it before it
• 25:38
  was too late. But it certainly wasn't a safety
• 25:41
  squeeze. So with that said, I think which
• 25:43
  because I think that's a very important detail that a lot of
• 25:46
  people are missing and we were talking about it before we
• 25:48
  hopped on. I initially was planning on this
• 25:51
  being a a rather brief segment but as the day went on and I'm
• 25:55
  I'm reading more into Angels fans thoughts and just general
• 26:01
  onlookers bystanders that that wanted to share their thoughts
• 26:05
  on the on how this situation played out.
• 26:09
  I've seen a lot of people commenting on the play itself
• 26:16
  that clearly have never played baseball a day in their life and
• 26:22
  I'm not sitting here trying to pull like the well what do they
• 26:24
  know we at least played baseball.
• 26:26
  That's not what I'm trying to say.
• 26:28
  I'm simply saying there are nuances to what happened that
• 26:34
  without that context would make it very easy to look at how the
• 26:40
  play ended up or or developed, unfolded and go Oh well, Ron
• 26:43
  Washington's an idiot. That's that's that's not on
• 26:46
  that's not on Louise. That's on Ron.
• 26:49
  I'm not sitting here trying to absolve Ron Washington of any of
• 26:52
  any fault here because he he dealt with the The Post game
• 26:57
  presser a little bit too, too strongly.
• 27:00
  So we'll we'll get to that. But the play itself, a safe, a
• 27:07
  squeeze or a suicide squeeze, is where the runner on 3rd is
• 27:14
  advancing to home. The second The second pitcher
• 27:18
  chooses to go home. That's when they take off.
• 27:21
  When the pitcher commits to the plate, that's when he's taken
• 27:24
  off and you better hope and pray as the hitter.
• 27:29
  Or if you're a fan watching that, the guy that's up up at
• 27:33
  the plate, you just better hope and pray that that ball gets put
• 27:37
  down. Because if not, you see you see
• 27:41
  it play out exactly the way it played out in the Angels game.
• 27:44
  Your guy gets hosed at the plate, doesn't stand a chance,
• 27:48
  and the inning or or however progresses usually ends up not
• 27:53
  the way you want it to. So that's what's not being
• 27:56
  talked about enough is the fact that you're literally taught in
• 28:01
  like youth travel, baseball, high school, college, throw the
• 28:07
  bat at the ball if you have to, but you have to put the bat on
• 28:11
  the ball. And I don't care if it's three
• 28:13
  balls off the plate because I I saw a lot of people.
• 28:15
  I I was literally just getting into it with a guy on Twitter
• 28:18
  before we hopped on. He was like, the ball is 3 feet
• 28:20
  off the plate. You need a telephone pole.
• 28:22
  It wasn't 3 feet off the plate. It was, it was 3 feet off the
• 28:25
  plate if you look at where the catcher received it.
• 28:27
  But when it crosses the plane of the plate, you can get a bat on
• 28:31
  that. He just wasn't able to get a bat
• 28:33
  on it and you're going, well, how could he get get a bat on
• 28:36
  it? You have to throw the bat at the
• 28:39
  ball if necessary. You got it.
• 28:41
  You have to sacrifice any, any, any semblance of posture that
• 28:45
  you have to make sure that you can reach beyond the plate to
• 28:53
  have full coverage of even the zone, outside of the zone, to
• 28:58
  make sure that you get the ball down.
• 29:00
  And he didn't do that. And that's exactly what Ron
• 29:02
  Washington was talking about after the game.
• 29:06
  Again, you got into a little bit with the quotes there, which
• 29:09
  we'll touch on, but what were your, what were your thoughts on
• 29:12
  how on how the play panned out? Yeah, I mean you you nailed, you
• 29:17
  hit the nail on the head. This is a this is a squeeze.
• 29:20
  I don't know I what you did, but like in high school and college
• 29:25
  like it was mixed in during BP. Like it it you would start your
• 29:29
  round with if it was your first round, you typically go like I'm
• 29:33
  going to go oppo or hit and runs.
• 29:34
  It's situational right? So every BP hitter has a
• 29:38
  situational round to start. You start with bunts.
• 29:41
  My college coach would mix in, mix in, squeeze opportunities in
• 29:46
  there and he would purposely throw weird pitches.
• 29:49
  He would throw at you. He would throw wild.
• 29:51
  He would spike one and like if you missed two in a row your
• 29:55
  that round was over and you're out.
• 29:57
  Like you I would get kicked out that that would happen at
• 30:00
  certain levels. I don't know.
• 30:02
  I highly doubt this is being practiced.
• 30:05
  This is one of the things where like this is a very old school
• 30:08
  play. Ron Washington is a very old
• 30:10
  school baseball mind. He mentioned that, you know, he
• 30:15
  didn't feel good about the left on left.
• 30:16
  He didn't want to hit into a double play.
• 30:19
  So this is what he called and and like for fans that are
• 30:22
  getting on him, I'm not going to get to the comments yet.
• 30:25
  We'll get to that in here in a SEC.
• 30:26
  But like the play call is, it's just one of those.
• 30:32
  He's a genius. If it if it pans out, then he's
• 30:34
  an idiot if it goes wrong. And that's just how it goes.
• 30:40
  But yeah, I mean like this is something we're taught.
• 30:43
  I just, I don't think it's practiced a lot anymore.
• 30:47
  I don't think it's practiced enough.
• 30:50
  I can't speak specifically for Angels practices or pregame
• 30:55
  stuff. Maybe Ron has mixed that in.
• 30:58
  Maybe it's been a requirement. I don't know.
• 31:01
  But like, there's a reason why it just it doesn't get called
• 31:04
  very often anymore. And there's a reason there's
• 31:09
  certain scenarios for it. I do feel for gear.
• 31:12
  Gear me because like, he just got to town.
• 31:16
  Homie just got to LA. I know I There's probably a
• 31:21
  connection that they had in Atlanta beforehand, but like,
• 31:26
  tough comments to hear if you're brand new to the squad.
• 31:34
  Yeah it in in thinking about this this incident it it really
• 31:38
  just reminded me or reinforced the the fact that and I'm hear
• 31:45
  me when I say this, I'm I'm not trying to just dump on the
• 31:48
  current generation of baseball fans.
• 31:50
  But there is I feel like a lack of context.
• 31:54
  Sure they have numbers they have data down to the decimal.
• 32:00
  But there's a lack of for for the ones that haven't played
• 32:03
  baseball at any level. There's a lack of understanding
• 32:06
  to the nuance. And you you look at something
• 32:09
  like this that we've already explained where it's like if you
• 32:12
  just see the play develop and you don't really know what needs
• 32:16
  to be done or or or how that play is on a on a technical
• 32:20
  level supposed to develop, then you're going to look at that and
• 32:23
  go again. Ron Washington's an idiot but
• 32:26
  you have to understand the nuance and it.
• 32:28
  Another example of that is when you see you see these fans on
• 32:34
  Twitter using they they put they'll post screenshots on
• 32:37
  Twitter of the K Zone and they'll it'll be like a ball off
• 32:41
  the plate when in reality it was much closer.
• 32:44
  But you know how the how those K zones work like they're never
• 32:47
  perfect and even if it even if it's spot on even if it's like a
• 32:52
  ball off the plate it'll it'll the the circle will be touching
• 32:55
  the line, the border of the strike zone and they'll go how
• 33:00
  did how did our guy get rung up that's clearly off the plate and
• 33:05
  the the play in question was a guy leaving the bat on her
• 33:09
  shoulder with the bases loaded in two outs.
• 33:11
  It's it again, that's the that's the lack of understanding the
• 33:16
  nuance of the game. Or the vice versa role of a a
• 33:21
  pitcher being wild all day and not getting one of those calls
• 33:25
  and understanding that like if he's spraying it it, the umpire
• 33:29
  is less likely to call that and when it's a borderline pitch.
• 33:32
  So keep going. But yeah, nuances are are all
• 33:35
  over the place that yeah, fans need to pick up on.
• 33:37
  Yeah, like with the K zone thing, it's like, sure, it's a
• 33:41
  ball on paper or on on screen and even in real life in the
• 33:46
  game. But the nuance of the game is
• 33:49
  you have a human umpire behind the plate.
• 33:51
  And regardless what you think about it, you're going to have
• 33:54
  to deal with his zone that day. And if he's calling his zone
• 33:58
  wide, then you're going to have to expand your zone as a hitter.
• 34:02
  And so for for the this current generation of fans who are, and
• 34:07
  again I'm, I'm not trying to just dump on them.
• 34:10
  I'm I'm just simply bringing an observation forward is that if
• 34:14
  you look at that, you go like these umpires suck.
• 34:19
  It's like well, maybe, yeah, that's that's true at at times
• 34:24
  in certain situations. But also shift some of that
• 34:26
  blame towards your hitter for not taking the bat off his
• 34:29
  shoulder with two strikes and two outs and the bases loaded
• 34:32
  like you got to you got to you got to put bat to ball or at
• 34:36
  least make an attempt. I don't care how well he knows
• 34:39
  his zone. That's what you're taught is to
• 34:41
  expand the zone with two strikes.
• 34:43
  So I I I've had enough of the the the K zone screenshots.
• 34:49
  I I it's it that doesn't tell me anything like that doesn't show
• 34:53
  me. It doesn't prove to me anything.
• 34:55
  You just have to understand the nuances of the game.
• 34:57
  That's all but the quotes man. Let's, let's talk, Let's talk
• 35:02
  about his, his one or two liner afterwards, he said.
• 35:08
  Washington explained afterwards why he called for the squeeze
• 35:11
  bunt in that situation. He said lefty on lefty and with
• 35:14
  a sinker baller on a left-hander.
• 35:16
  I didn't want him to hit into a double play.
• 35:18
  He said he he can handle the bat.
• 35:21
  He didn't do the job. It wasn't anything I did wrong.
• 35:25
  He didn't do the job. Now, look, I get it, man.
• 35:31
  Guys, managers included, players, managers alike, you can
• 35:34
  get frustrated. You can get caught up in the
• 35:36
  heat of the moment, especially if it's the Los Angeles Angels
• 35:38
  of California, Anaheim, LA. That's a frustrate, frustrating
• 35:42
  organization to be a part of right now.
• 35:43
  So I get it. Like sometimes you may be a
• 35:46
  little slip of the tongue, but I mean, for a guy that's been
• 35:51
  around the game that long, that's that's a tough line to
• 35:55
  drop on your guy. I see both sides.
• 36:03
  For the record, I do too. I'm just saying like I I can see
• 36:06
  it from the other side. I I mean, I I do hear what
• 36:09
  you're saying just because of the fact that like, again, he's,
• 36:11
  he's brand new to the clubhouse. He just got traded there a
• 36:14
  couple days ago. It was like last week.
• 36:17
  Whether you're familiar with that player or not, like that
• 36:20
  guy's still trying to fight for a role on this team.
• 36:23
  He's still trying to fight for relationships with his
• 36:25
  teammates, but we've been praising Ron Wash on a lot of
• 36:33
  different instances. We saw a moment where he kind of
• 36:39
  lit into Joe Adele for making it out.
• 36:42
  You know, I think he didn't slide at second or something
• 36:44
  weird like that. We've seen him go out on visits
• 36:48
  to the mound and have a conversation with that pitcher.
• 36:57
  It's things that we grew up seeing in managers and it's
• 37:01
  somewhat of a a breath of fresh air that it feels like we're not
• 37:05
  just watching 2 calculators play each other.
• 37:09
  We're watching someone that has a a finger on the pulse of the
• 37:12
  game. I think Ron Washington has a
• 37:18
  responsibility with this organization to correct things,
• 37:23
  to get things back on track. But I think I would assume that
• 37:27
  that was probably one of the reasons he was brought in is to
• 37:32
  just get things back in order in an old school mentality.
• 37:38
  He's not wrong. What he said wasn't wrong.
• 37:42
  Players have to have accountability.
• 37:46
  Do you say that to the public? Do you say that an oppressor?
• 37:51
  Do you maybe save that moment for a closed door clubhouse or
• 37:55
  even a a closed office one-on-one with that player?
• 37:58
  Like that's a different conversation.
• 38:02
  But like you said, like the reason we didn't like this and
• 38:07
  you posted that on Twitter today, it was, it was a
• 38:10
  flashback of the our, our conversation we had when this
• 38:13
  initial hire happened. Back in November.
• 38:17
  The reason we didn't like this is because it felt like it was
• 38:20
  an unwinnable situation for Ron Washington.
• 38:24
  Looking at this roster, looking at the position the organization
• 38:28
  is in, this was going to be frustrating from the jump.
• 38:33
  This was going to be at best of 500 ball club at best best case
• 38:41
  scenario and in a a guy in in his resume, in his history.
• 38:50
  What he's since done with the Braves and the relationship he's
• 38:53
  built with players and and the admiration he's gotten and
• 38:57
  praise that he's gotten for his infield coaching abilities like
• 39:02
  and what seemed to be like this very much player, pro player,
• 39:06
  coach mentality, being in this situation just felt unwinnable.
• 39:11
  And now I think we're just starting to see it unravel a
• 39:14
  little bit. I'm not saying like all the, you
• 39:17
  know, the training wheels have fallen off and we're just going
• 39:19
  haywire here. But like when you get a cut and
• 39:24
  dry old school manager and you're asking his opinion in a
• 39:30
  frustrating season that's that's happened so far in an unwinnable
• 39:34
  situation, this is what you get. This is what you get.
• 39:38
  This is why we weren't about it. This is why we weren't feeling
• 39:40
  Ron Washington in in this role. But I'm still with my guy.
• 39:48
  I'm still with Wash. I'm still, he's not wrong.
• 39:52
  Again, Guillerm, I didn't get the bunt down.
• 39:55
  He didn't get wood on it. And that's like, that's a,
• 39:58
  that's a that's a rule that's embedded into us since we
• 40:02
  started picking up a bat. Specifically in this situation,
• 40:06
  this is what you got to do, and I bet he would sit there and own
• 40:11
  up to it. It's just the tough thing of.
• 40:13
  Like I'm trying to find that message.
• 40:15
  I'm trying to find the quote. He he did acknowledge it.
• 40:21
  But yeah, to your Sorry, keep going.
• 40:24
  No I was just looking for it. Yeah I I think it's you know
• 40:28
  it's you're you're probably getting a guy and and Jeremy I
• 40:30
  think he's you know he's been around a little bit he he is
• 40:33
  typically been a a role guy. He's typically getting you know
• 40:37
  two or three games in a week. He's not a full time you know
• 40:44
  permanent marker into the lineup every day.
• 40:46
  So I think he understands that like he's got to make the best
• 40:51
  of his opportunities. I don't fully agree with the way
• 40:55
  Ron Wash went about it, but I don't disagree with what he
• 40:57
  said. And and getting grown men to
• 41:02
  have some accountability for their jobs that they're getting
• 41:04
  paid a lot of money to do this is what it takes to flip the
• 41:09
  script or or flip the mentality or change what this organization
• 41:15
  has been about. And like, it's not easy coming
• 41:18
  in and saying, you know, we're about winning here.
• 41:21
  We need to make this about winning and we need to change
• 41:23
  some things and I'm pro run wash still even after this.
• 41:30
  Absolutely. And I'm in the same camp.
• 41:31
  I did find the quote he said when they asked him about it, he
• 41:37
  said I haven't seen what Washington said, but he said he
• 41:40
  made a good pitch. I didn't get it down.
• 41:42
  I've got to try to put a bat on it.
• 41:44
  That's it. That's it.
• 41:46
  So, so like, what are we, what are we talking about here, these
• 41:49
  people talking about the ball being 64 feet off the plate, Not
• 41:54
  the case. It was clearly manageable enough
• 41:57
  that that he indicates that he could have gotten a bat on it so
• 42:04
  or that he could at least try to put a bat on it.
• 42:06
  Which is all you can ask for in a situation like that.
• 42:08
  Because you know that you're not always going to have it in the
• 42:10
  zone and that's going to sometimes trickle out out of the
• 42:13
  zone a little bit, few balls off the plate.
• 42:14
  You still got to try to put a bat on it.
• 42:17
  We you. You've taken the Auggie Garrido
• 42:20
  exit off for a while now, yeah? It's been a minute since we
• 42:24
  dropped the Auggie audio. I I think for those unfamiliar,
• 42:31
  there's just certain coaches that have different types of
• 42:34
  expectations and there's certain coaches that require a pursuit
• 42:40
  of perfection in in certain things.
• 42:42
  Specifically when it comes to fundamentals there there's just
• 42:49
  old school mentalities. You know when you talk to a
• 42:51
  scout, if he walks away from a game saying I'm not interested
• 42:54
  in this high schooler because he walked off the mound or he
• 42:58
  walked off the field in between innings, you know, it's it's
• 43:02
  Patrick, not Patrick. Coach Corbin with Vanderbilt.
• 43:08
  I can't remember his name talks about how he didn't.
• 43:11
  Tim Corbin, thank you. Didn't recruit a kid because he
• 43:15
  asked for a Gatorade from his mom in the second inning and
• 43:18
  then didn't say thank you. Afterwards.
• 43:19
  He got up and left. There's just certain baseball
• 43:23
  coaches out there that they that they can look at those nuances
• 43:27
  that you mentioned. They can have a finger on the
• 43:30
  pulse a little bit differently than just results and stats.
• 43:34
  We can look at the game in different ways and it doesn't
• 43:37
  mean Ron Washington is wrong. He's trying to fix this dumpster
• 43:44
  fire of an organization and correct things and then if he's
• 43:47
  asking players to have accountability, that's what it's
• 43:52
  going to take. And I can guarantee that Ron
• 43:55
  Washington probably had a a voice in trading for Guillerme
• 44:01
  and getting him onto this roster because of the prior
• 44:03
  relationship in Atlanta. So to sit here and judge from a
• 44:09
  10,000 foot view, it's it's not cool.
• 44:12
  We don't know what's going on behind that clubhouse.
• 44:14
  We don't know if they've already made-up.
• 44:15
  We don't know. But what I do know is that Ron
• 44:18
  Washington has forgotten more about baseball than any of us
• 44:22
  talking or listening to this podcast at the moment has ever
• 44:26
  learned. So let's back it down a little
• 44:30
  bit. Let my man do what he does and
• 44:34
  give it some time to fix this script.
• 44:37
  That is the Los Angeles, CA Angels of Los Angeles, LA.
• 44:42
  Anaheim, CA. LA Yeah, Angeles.
• 44:46
  Putting a bow on it that that tweet I just texted.
• 44:49
  You people are are finally showing up on my thread in
• 44:53
  support of the same exact things we're saying.
• 44:58
  Yes, Sir. Like, that's the kind of, and if
• 45:01
  you don't know what I'm talking about, head over to my Twitter,
• 45:03
  you'll see my my post about the whole Washington thing.
• 45:06
  And it's in the replies. But there's there's just people
• 45:09
  talking about how, like if you didn't, if you didn't make an
• 45:12
  effort, if you didn't go all out, that you're going to hear
• 45:15
  it after the game and somebody sent a picture of a kid just
• 45:19
  going. All and and you can tell like
• 45:22
  you can tell immediately. If a hitter seems to be in a
• 45:27
  good position to make a bunt that was a Late Show and that
• 45:32
  was an ass out half attempt swipe down at it.
• 45:40
  You knew that was coming and and it needs to be performed in a
• 45:43
  better way. You're a professional athlete
• 45:45
  and that is something that you know in that tweet like you said
• 45:48
  it's a high schooler like that. We've taught we've been taught
• 45:51
  this for a while. Whether you practice it is a
• 45:54
  different conversation. Whether the game needs more of
• 45:56
  it or less of it is a different conversation.
• 46:00
  But either way, that was not a good enough effort on a very
• 46:05
  much definition do or die play. Well said, Speaking of effort,
• 46:13
  Junghu Lee, in an effort to make a catch on Sunday, hurt his
• 46:17
  shoulder. And we just found out, I want to
• 46:21
  say yesterday post MRI that or I'm guessing it was him, Yeah,
• 46:31
  MRI revealed that they were structural damage to the
• 46:34
  shoulder. So now he is going to be getting
• 46:40
  a believe a second look on Thursday.
• 46:45
  So one can assume that he's going to be out for a little bit
• 46:50
  of time which is kind of a it's kind of a shame.
• 46:52
  You know he was, I think he was settling in fairly nicely for a
• 46:58
  a newbie to the to the Major League scene.
• 47:00
  He was hitting 262 with two homers, 8 ribbies.
• 47:04
  Had a a little little low on the OPS 641, but defensively he had
• 47:11
  been doing well. Absurd.
• 47:13
  I I genuinely believe he could have won a Gold Glove this year
• 47:18
  from from what I've seen. Yeah, sorry, I I understood him
• 47:21
  there. He's been, he's been great.
• 47:22
  Defensively, yeah. Hence the effort, right?
• 47:26
  Like, I don't know, man. Like, I that's that's Griffey to
• 47:29
  me. That's like, that's Tory Hunter
• 47:31
  to me. That's like how center fielders
• 47:33
  should play. I don't think we see it enough
• 47:35
  anymore, but oh man, I don't. I think it depends, right?
• 47:40
  It depends if it's a labrum issue, it depends if it's a a
• 47:43
  rotator cuff issue. Sometimes you can rehab,
• 47:48
  sometimes you can tighten it up. Rehab is still from what I've
• 47:53
  like looked into and read is still like a four to six week
• 47:56
  thing best case scenario. Surgery is more like a four to
• 47:59
  six month thing. And if it's bad enough to wear
• 48:02
  surgeries, you know, in the picture, I think he's done for
• 48:05
  the year, which is tough because I like him.
• 48:09
  I like watching him. He's he's insane, man.
• 48:12
  He flies around and like for that to even be like he got
• 48:16
  leather on that ball, I don't know if you could tell like he
• 48:19
  hit off the pinky of the leather of his glove and and hit off the
• 48:23
  top of the wall, like to even get into a position to
• 48:26
  potentially make that play just speaks to what he's capable of
• 48:30
  as a defender. But man, that's really tough
• 48:34
  news. I mean, like I like I said,
• 48:37
  offensively he wasn't bringing as much to the table, if really
• 48:40
  anything. But there is something to be
• 48:43
  said and take it from a guy who had the fortune of watching
• 48:46
  Jackie Bradley hold it down in Center for however many years he
• 48:51
  was in Boston. There's something to be said for
• 48:54
  a guy that regardless how he does offensively, how regardless
• 48:57
  what output he brings to the table, knowing that there
• 49:02
  there's probably a a fraction of a percentage point number of
• 49:07
  baseballs that are hit to the outfield that he's not going to
• 49:11
  be able to get to. And I feel like I I feel like
• 49:14
  Lee is one of the guys that it doesn't really matter where the
• 49:18
  ball's hit or how hard. Like you were saying, the fact
• 49:21
  he's he's going to at least put himself in a position to get a
• 49:25
  glove on it. And that that carries a lot of
• 49:28
  weight, especially for your other outfielders who who are
• 49:35
  around as well as your staff. Like knowing that if there's a
• 49:38
  ball that you see, if you're if you're yanking your neck back,
• 49:42
  but then you're reminded, oh wait, I got a guy out there and
• 49:45
  not only do I have a guy, I've got a guy that's more than
• 49:48
  likely already camped under the ball.
• 49:49
  There's a lot of value in that. So losing him defensively for
• 49:54
  any amount of time is is going to suck.
• 49:56
  But we can only hope that it'll be it'll be minimal.
• 50:01
  And it was like such a perfect spot on the wall to like the
• 50:04
  where it had the pad and then below the pad was the chain link
• 50:07
  fence. It looked like his elbow, like
• 50:10
  hit the pad 1st and then like pushed it in.
• 50:13
  It just a weird fluky thing. Yeah, sucks.
• 50:20
  Yeah, not fun. What is fun, however, is having
• 50:28
  been able to watch these arms that we're about to discuss the
• 50:36
  first one, maybe not as not as fun for me, I will say, although
• 50:43
  I'm not surprised, I had a feeling something like this was
• 50:46
  going to happen. I I knew that the second he had
• 50:52
  a change of scenery that he was going to return to a Cy Young
• 50:55
  caliber pitcher, and that is Christopher Allen Sale of the
• 51:00
  Atlanta Braves. Tuesday night's start went 7
• 51:03
  deep, only allowed two hits, no earned runs, no walks and nine
• 51:08
  KS. What's more impressive though is
• 51:12
  what he's done on the season. Eight games or eight starts,
• 51:15
  rather six and one 254 ERA, 61 KS.
• 51:21
  A 0.89 WHIP, 11 KS per nine 1 1/2 wore over 49.2 or 49 2/3
• 51:28
  innings pitch. What's even more impressive than
• 51:31
  that, however, has been his last three last three start stretch,
• 51:36
  18 innings, 28 K's, only one earned run allowed, which
• 51:40
  amounts to an ERA of .50. So the question needs to be
• 51:46
  asked, is Chris Sale in the Sion conversation?
• 51:52
  Kind of has to be. Kind of, has to be, at least
• 51:56
  this early the the the strikeouts jump out to me big
• 52:01
  time when Chris Sale cause, like the deceptions already there.
• 52:07
  It's a lot of a lot of lankiness, a lot of elbows.
• 52:10
  A weird slot hides the ball pitches on one side of the
• 52:13
  rubber, like pitches behind left-handed hitters.
• 52:16
  Almost like all of that. But when the swing and miss is
• 52:21
  also included in that, that's how you know he's back.
• 52:30
  And when you almost can like leave the spotlight and the
• 52:35
  pressure and like the the stigma of like, oh, we traded for this
• 52:40
  guy and we extended him. And you know, he's helped us get
• 52:43
  rings and like all the stuff that he had in Boston to have a
• 52:47
  reset button, to have a a, a staff where you don't need to be
• 52:54
  the guy to just figure out like how to do this again, I think
• 53:00
  everyone predicted this. I think there was a lot of
• 53:03
  people that had him as comeback player of the year.
• 53:06
  There's a lot of people that knew that Anthopolis constantly
• 53:10
  finds diamonds in the rough. I'm just, I'm not surprised.
• 53:17
  I'm not at all surprised. It's cool to see and it's like,
• 53:21
  nicer to see for me now, 'cause I'm like I I'm OK with seeing
• 53:25
  him succeed in a different uniform for you.
• 53:29
  I feel like this sting hurts that much more.
• 53:33
  Yeah, I mean, I know I make the the connection of fantasy
• 53:37
  baseball a lot, but the way I think about something like this
• 53:40
  is you get rid of a guy. Perfect example.
• 53:43
  That's the guy we're going to cover here In just a minute.
• 53:45
  Dylan Cease. In fact, I believe I had traded
• 53:47
  him your way. If I recall Dylan cease a guy
• 53:51
  that coming into the season I wasn't terribly high on.
• 53:55
  I thought, you know, maybe maybe people thinking that his last
• 54:00
  year in Chicago was maybe the rule and not the exception.
• 54:04
  Like maybe we just saw that one extremely solid campaign out of
• 54:09
  him, but maybe that he he will struggle to recapture that.
• 54:14
  I kind of adopted that line of thinking.
• 54:16
  Apparently that was a mistake on my part.
• 54:18
  But you you look to maybe capitalize while you can because
• 54:22
  you're just not as high on this individual anymore.
• 54:24
  So you ship them out and then they go on to do great things,
• 54:27
  which is what Dylan sees has done.
• 54:28
  That's kind of I feel like we're the Red Sox are at they're like
• 54:31
  we've we've we've arrived at the end of this road like we need to
• 54:35
  get what we can for this before things get even worse.
• 54:38
  And then he goes on to have the start that it's happened and
• 54:41
  who's to say I'm not I'm not wishing anything upon him.
• 54:44
  But reminder it is still early We we've seen this happen
• 54:48
  before. All I'm saying though is the
• 54:50
  start that he is off to right now it's vintage Chris Sale and
• 54:53
  it's it's I mean Red Sox fan or not it's it's cool to see.
• 54:57
  I mean that's you love to see a guy like that have a bounce
• 55:00
  back. Yeah, as a baseball fan, you're
• 55:02
  like you. You knew like anybody that sit
• 55:05
  here and says that like you, you.
• 55:08
  I would kill for like one more Cy Young caliber season from
• 55:11
  Stephen Strasburg right before it was all said and done.
• 55:14
  Like to sit here and say like we're done with Chris Sale, like
• 55:18
  we're fine with his career ending this way.
• 55:20
  Nah, I don't buy it. Like this is what we were
• 55:23
  wanting to see. It's it's good for baseball.
• 55:25
  It's good for him. It's good for stories like him.
• 55:28
  Second chances, third chances, fourth chances, whatever you
• 55:31
  want to chalk it up as. It's good to see him back.
• 55:35
  It's good to see him doing what he's doing, you know?
• 55:40
  It's just annoying that it's what the Braves seem to always
• 55:45
  do. And yeah, that's what it is, I
• 55:50
  guess. I don't know that.
• 55:52
  Good for him, though. Weirdo.
• 55:55
  Yeah, we're talking about some dudes here and I promise you, I
• 55:58
  said last episode, I said I had some pictures in yeah, had a
• 56:01
  little bit of a a busy weekend. So we had to run with some some
• 56:05
  broader storylines. But I knew there were some guys
• 56:08
  that needed some love. Some we needed to have some
• 56:11
  conversations about. And I told you, I said we'll
• 56:13
  we'll get to some dudes. We'll get to some numbers and
• 56:15
  here we are talking about it. Although like you said it's
• 56:18
  we're we're heavy on the arms here.
• 56:19
  In fact it's exclusively ARMS next next in line.
• 56:23
  Seth Lugo. Yeah.
• 56:26
  One of the most underrated least talked about arms I think right
• 56:32
  now in all of baseball he's sporting a six, one or six in
• 56:37
  one record. He's got a an ERA of 166 with
• 56:41
  which is 4th best in all of baseball and it's the best in
• 56:45
  the American League. He's got 48 KS, a .96 WHIP and
• 56:49
  opponents are hitting two O 6 off of him, Which for context if
• 56:53
  you're curious, like where does that rank the guy that we talked
• 56:56
  about very recently, Shota Imanaga.
• 56:59
  He's got the same opponent batting average.
• 57:01
  So that kind of puts into perspective where Seth Lugo's at
• 57:05
  right now with Oba. And this is all over 59 and 2/3
• 57:10
  innings, which is most in all of baseball.
• 57:14
  I think that's noteworthy in and of itself.
• 57:18
  Something I think is interesting here.
• 57:19
  A little nugget I've got on Seth Lugo.
• 57:22
  His Cape or nine right now is 724, which is 59th in baseball.
• 57:32
  So what does that tell us? He's working effectively.
• 57:39
  He's working efficiently, He's pitching to contact.
• 57:41
  He's limiting traffic as the WHIP shows.
• 57:44
  He's he's managing base runners well.
• 57:47
  He's doing all of this without blowing it by it, which
• 57:50
  ironically his last outing. I think he had a career high 12
• 57:54
  KS so. Yeah.
• 57:56
  He wanted to maybe mixed up a little bit there with that
• 57:58
  narrative, but All in all across across his 2024 campaign thus
• 58:03
  far it's he's been a little bit on the lower end in terms of
• 58:08
  cage per nine, so. I I want to just pat the Royals
• 58:16
  organization in front office on the back.
• 58:20
  I want to shake your hand. Just to just to do this dude is
• 58:24
  like to turn things around to find a guy and I was looking we
• 58:31
  are know we know the name Seth Lugo.
• 58:33
  Like we know it. We we're used to this name.
• 58:36
  I don't think I didn't realize until now.
• 58:43
  He's only been like a full time starter for two seasons in his
• 58:49
  career. 2017, he made eighteen starts.
• 58:54
  That was the highest of his career.
• 58:56
  He went to the bullpen pretty much primarily for the next five
• 58:59
  years. And then last year of San Diego,
• 59:01
  he had 26 starts in a 357 ERA with 146 innings.
• 59:08
  For the Royals organization to be like, let's try it, let's
• 59:14
  grab this 34 year old and let's slide him into the rotation and
• 59:18
  let's see what he can do. It's unbelievable.
• 59:23
  It's unbelievable. I will refuse to talk about Seth
• 59:33
  Lugo or any other Royals pitcher right now without bringing up
• 59:37
  the fact that Sally Perez has on a dime, flipped his his catching
• 59:44
  style, his framing. He has to be mentioned in this
• 59:50
  to be a a veteran that's been in the game that long to switch
• 59:53
  things around and do what he's doing it.
• 59:55
  It speaks volumes to what it's happening with the pitching
• 59:58
  staff. Seth Lugo, obviously a huge
• 1:00:01
  benefit from it. But yeah, you you hit
• 1:00:03
  everything, man. Pitch the contact, trust the
• 1:00:06
  really good defense behind them. And it's like, it's it's fun to
• 1:00:11
  see. It's fun to see.
• 1:00:14
  Another just fun story, dude. Like that no one expected.
• 1:00:19
  No one had this on the bingo card.
• 1:00:21
  Good for Seth. Again, it's early, but my take
• 1:00:28
  on the Royals making the the wild card.
• 1:00:30
  I love it. It's looking good.
• 1:00:32
  It's looking not not looking too bad, just the postseason in
• 1:00:35
  general. Not not looking too bad for the
• 1:00:37
  old Kansas City Royals. Speaking of the American League
• 1:00:41
  Central Tariq Scoobel, another name We need to talk about
• 1:00:44
  another name that's is getting getting a fair amount of
• 1:00:49
  respect, but I don't think quite enough.
• 1:00:52
  He's 5 and O on the year. He's got a 2O2 ERA, 40 Nines
• 1:00:56
  inning, 49 innings pitched. He's racked up 60 strikeouts
• 1:01:00
  with a WHIP of 857. That's a .857.
• 1:01:08
  He's got a Major League leading 2O3 FIP and he touched just for
• 1:01:16
  just for notes purposes, he touched 100 for the first time
• 1:01:19
  in his career on Sunday. According to Codify, Codify,
• 1:01:23
  he's got the most F4 among Major League pitchers since August 1st
• 1:01:26
  at 4.1 and he is the current American League Cy Young
• 1:01:33
  favorite and Nate's pre season pick.
• 1:01:38
  It's true. It's looking good there.
• 1:01:41
  If anybody wants to, I'm looking at his Baseball Savant page
• 1:01:44
  right now. It it's just everything's lit up
• 1:01:47
  in red. Everything's lit up in red.
• 1:01:49
  This guy's absurd, man. Expected batting average.
• 1:01:54
  Are you looking at Tariq Scoobler or are you looking at
• 1:01:56
  Mason Miller? I'm looking at Scoobler, baby.
• 1:01:58
  I'm looking at Scoobler. Why?
• 1:02:01
  No, Same thing. Mason Miller.
• 1:02:02
  Is just all red. Yeah, it's just a red block.
• 1:02:05
  But the the expected batting average, the expected the Wolba
• 1:02:11
  and the expected Wolba both like top three ten 8% in the league.
• 1:02:17
  K percentage is top ten in the league.
• 1:02:20
  Walk percentage is top 8% in the league.
• 1:02:23
  Like. He's a true four pitch pitcher
• 1:02:28
  like the four seam. The sinker obviously is what he
• 1:02:32
  works off of a lot. But like the change up and
• 1:02:34
  slider are big time in the mix. This is pitching.
• 1:02:40
  This is pitching. This man is disgusting, super,
• 1:02:48
  super fun to watch man. Yeah, go look at the Go look at
• 1:02:55
  the Baseball Savant page stud. Go win that Cy Young for me, I
• 1:03:01
  love being like one for 30 on my Hot Take prediction episodes,
• 1:03:05
  You know what I mean? You'd be wrong for most of them,
• 1:03:08
  but. For the record I think in a name
• 1:03:13
  we'll we've we've we've touched on a little bit and we'll
• 1:03:17
  probably have to revisit here soon.
• 1:03:19
  But Zach Wheeler, I believe is the favorite for the National
• 1:03:22
  League at the moment. For some, for some outlets.
• 1:03:27
  And I pretty sure that's who I had coming out of the National
• 1:03:31
  League preseason episode. Who'da.
• 1:03:33
  Who'da thought. Who'da thunk it?
• 1:03:36
  Moving along here talking about National League Cy Young
• 1:03:40
  candidates Dylan Cease just rocking a 53245 yard a 55
• 1:03:46
  innings pitched over or, I'm sorry, 68 KS over 55 innings
• 1:03:50
  pitched. Those 68 strike cuts are third
• 1:03:52
  most in all of baseball. He's got a .782 WHIP, which is
• 1:03:55
  second best in baseball. We've we've talked about
• 1:04:00
  different elements of of these guys, some guys pitching a
• 1:04:03
  contact some guys being efficient, some guys using pitch
• 1:04:07
  selection. Dylan Cease strikeout is the is
• 1:04:12
  the word that comes to mind here.
• 1:04:13
  Eight of his nine starts this season, he's had seven plus
• 1:04:16
  strikeouts, which may not sound like a lot, but when you think
• 1:04:20
  about some of the names out there, who you would expect to
• 1:04:24
  have something like that, but don't.
• 1:04:27
  Yeah. It's it's it's tip your cap
• 1:04:32
  worthy. 4 Out of his last five starts, he's had eight plus KS
• 1:04:38
  and on his May 8th start, which I believe was his start before
• 1:04:41
  the last, yeah, 12 strikeouts versus the Cubs.
• 1:04:48
  Different, different and different style too that he's
• 1:04:51
  primarily a two pitch guy. He's basically just fastball
• 1:04:55
  slider, that's that's majority of what he's throwing and it's
• 1:05:03
  disgusting. And he's also in like a, you
• 1:05:06
  know fairly hitter friendly Petco.
• 1:05:08
  So yeah, that's that's something else to say too.
• 1:05:12
  So. I hate that I traded him.
• 1:05:17
  Hate that I traded him, but. Yeah, that was you.
• 1:05:21
  I traded him before this. This breakout campaign really
• 1:05:26
  got going. But that's that's my thing and
• 1:05:28
  I'm not going to be like a Debbie Downer here, but like as
• 1:05:30
  a two pitch guy like you, you could see one of those getting
• 1:05:37
  you know, having an issue. There's reason for caution,
• 1:05:40
  right like and we've seen caution before and and we've
• 1:05:43
  seen things to be cautious about in the past.
• 1:05:46
  So I tried to sell high. We'll see if it continues.
• 1:05:50
  I hope it does, but at the same time, since I traded him, I'm OK
• 1:05:54
  if it doesn't. I got J Ram out of the deal.
• 1:05:57
  If anyone's curious, I got Jose Ramirez out of the deal, so and
• 1:06:01
  the rest of the pitching staff looks OK for me right now.
• 1:06:09
  Next, Next we got to talk about name.
• 1:06:11
  I've already mentioned here Mason Miller, and we won't.
• 1:06:14
  We won't keep it too long because I know we got to get out
• 1:06:16
  of here soon. But did we save the best for
• 1:06:21
  last year? I think we did talk about an
• 1:06:24
  exciting arm on the year. He's sporting a 9.9 eights ERA,
• 1:06:33
  but that's not even what people really care about.
• 1:06:35
  Honestly, nobody cares about how much, how many runs this guy
• 1:06:37
  gives up. They care about how many triple
• 1:06:40
  digit fastballs he's going to shove down your throat.
• 1:06:45
  He's got 38 strikeouts on the year, which according to Danny
• 1:06:49
  Vietti, leads the Oakland A's this season as a reliever.
• 1:06:58
  He's a reliever, mind you. He's only pitched 18 and a
• 1:07:02
  third's innings and a third innings.
• 1:07:06
  Paul Blackburn is second with 36 / 46 innings.
• 1:07:13
  Disgusting. He's faced 67 batters and struck
• 1:07:17
  out 38 of them, which for those of you doing the math at home,
• 1:07:21
  that's 57% of the batters he's faced.
• 1:07:25
  Mason Miller has struck out 57% of the batters he's faced.
• 1:07:32
  He's yet to give up a home run. Regarding his triple digit
• 1:07:37
  fastballs that I mentioned earlier, he's thrown 54 more
• 1:07:41
  than any other pitcher this season.
• 1:07:47
  His past 11 appearances he's he's thrown out 13 and a thirds,
• 1:07:51
  giving up zero runs, had 30 KS, one hit and two walks.
• 1:07:59
  That's stupid. Oh, and by the way, he's now the
• 1:08:02
  Rookie of the Year favorite at coming out of the American
• 1:08:04
  League. Yeah, again, you mentioned
• 1:08:08
  earlier the the baseball's Von Paige is absurd.
• 1:08:13
  Exit velocity ranks in the top 6% of the league.
• 1:08:20
  The expected batting average is top 1%, expecting slug, expected
• 1:08:24
  slug percentage is top 1%, woba top 1%, ex woba, top 1%.
• 1:08:32
  Do we know what ex wobacon is? Is that like, is that on base
• 1:08:37
  percentage based on like contact, expected contact made
• 1:08:41
  or you know what I mean that's? Yeah.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah, that sounds right. That sounds right.
• 1:08:45
  That's also top 1% By the way. Hard hit percentage is that 20.8
• 1:08:49
  is top 1% K percentage, 56.7% like you mentioned, top 1% in
• 1:08:58
  baseball. This kid is ridiculous.
• 1:09:03
  Great comments saying that he's going to be highly sought after.
• 1:09:06
  I think I read something that the the A's have yet to get
• 1:09:10
  anything near the asking price, anything near it.
• 1:09:16
  So to sit here and say that like the Dodgers or or, you know, the
• 1:09:20
  Yankees or whatever, bullpen is a need to step in and and go
• 1:09:23
  snag this guy, be prepared to pay up.
• 1:09:29
  And I don't know if anyone will. Yeah, yes, I agree with you.
• 1:09:34
  I I think it's going to it's going to require a haul.
• 1:09:37
  But we can't. I we, I think we have to be
• 1:09:42
  careful in equating the the demands of a Mason Miller to a
• 1:09:49
  guy like Juan Soto because and I'm not saying people are making
• 1:09:52
  those comparisons but I feel like as the season goes on as
• 1:09:55
  Mason Miller gets talked about more it's going to be like the
• 1:09:57
  Oakland A's are going to be asking for the moon and it's
• 1:10:01
  like yeah, we get it. This guy he's legit.
• 1:10:05
  I'm not. I'm not questioning that.
• 1:10:07
  But also like, we have to keep in mind that we're dealing with
• 1:10:10
  a closer and not a guy like a Juan Soto who's going to be out
• 1:10:15
  there for 160 games every season.
• 1:10:17
  Yeah. Who and who also is like a
• 1:10:19
  generational talent, depending upon who you ask.
• 1:10:22
  Yeah. So I agree.
• 1:10:24
  I I'm with you and I, I, I said all that not to disagree with
• 1:10:27
  what you're saying. I'm just saying like I I want us
• 1:10:29
  to be careful and realistic about like what is?
• 1:10:33
  What is this package really going to look like?
• 1:10:34
  And. Yeah, especially when you see
• 1:10:36
  arms dropping like flies all over Elite, right?
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  And especially when you're talking about the Oakland A's
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  that have given away plenty of players for bags of chips and
• 1:10:47
  bucket of balls. So.
• 1:10:49
  And when you consider like I've seen the Orioles thrown around
• 1:10:53
  as a as a trade destination and I'm like, OK, so we just
• 1:10:56
  throwing Felix Batista the to the wolves here And I like, I
• 1:10:59
  know he's out, but what? You would give up, yeah.
• 1:11:03
  Right. That it just speaks to like, OK,
• 1:11:05
  the Orioles thought they they felt like this was their guy.
• 1:11:08
  And most most fans will probably tell you that he still is their
• 1:11:11
  guy when whenever he returns. But it's like, OK, if that's how
• 1:11:15
  we're if that's how we're treating or handling A lockdown
• 1:11:21
  guy who we thought a fan base was just beyond attached to,
• 1:11:26
  then why would a team or like why, why are we assigning so
• 1:11:30
  much value to a guy like Mason Miller, who, yeah, is a
• 1:11:33
  different pitcher than a guy like Felix Bautista.
• 1:11:36
  But again he doesn't he doesn't hold the same Just, you know
• 1:11:41
  like baseball values as a as a as a guy like Juan Soto who has
• 1:11:46
  proven it year after year after year and is a is a generational
• 1:11:51
  talent. Like, I I don't know.
• 1:11:52
  I just want to make sure we're not, we're not getting into
• 1:11:54
  those weeds, that's all. I do concur and I forgot what I
• 1:12:01
  was going to say. If you did have a team, I I
• 1:12:03
  wanted to ask you if there. Was a team.
• 1:12:05
  That's what I was going to say. It's going to be the.
• 1:12:06
  I think it's either the Dodgers, the Orioles.
• 1:12:08
  If if we get to pick one team from each league, it's it's a
• 1:12:12
  team that's log jam at the top and has plenty of stuff to move
• 1:12:16
  in their farm. Those two teams come to mind.
• 1:12:20
  Can I throw out an option that I kind of like under?
• 1:12:26
  The radar. Then trading for trading them to
• 1:12:30
  a team that already has a couple closers in the mix, like the
• 1:12:33
  Orioles. Or, you know, like bona fide
• 1:12:38
  options. The Texas Rangers.
• 1:12:42
  Yeah, Leclerc has been. Kirby Yates I think on paper
• 1:12:46
  right now is is their guy both those.
• 1:12:49
  Yeah, both those guys have been in shambles, I think.
• 1:12:52
  Leclerc's had a rough go of it and I I've seen Spores name
• 1:12:59
  thrown around as a potential option down the road.
• 1:13:01
  But I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if I necessarily
• 1:13:03
  see and we. I know he closed out the World
• 1:13:06
  Series and. You know, maybe, maybe
• 1:13:07
  Diamondbacks. Maybe Diamondbacks.
• 1:13:09
  Is Seawald still out? That I think more gets hung up
• 1:13:15
  with the farm. I I think it's less about their
• 1:13:18
  needs and more about what they're able.
• 1:13:20
  To if they're able to afford. But I don't know, man.
• 1:13:25
  It'll be fun, honestly. Like it sounds.
• 1:13:28
  It sounds kind of lame, but I kind of like watching them on
• 1:13:30
  The Age right now because it's like, OK.
• 1:13:33
  There's a reason to watch them, Yeah, like.
• 1:13:35
  It's kind of like the it's kind of like the Lamborghini under
• 1:13:38
  the the carport meme like in the trailer house or under like the
• 1:13:42
  the trailer park whatever. Like that's kind of what we're
• 1:13:44
  dealing with here with with Mason Miller and the A's.
• 1:13:46
  So it for for comedic purposes that I would say I don't, I
• 1:13:51
  don't mind them being on the A's right now.
• 1:13:54
  But anyway. Should we get a quick A's check?
• 1:13:59
  Has that game started yet? We don't need to talk about it.
• 1:14:02
  It's 2 nothing Astros in the 4th.
• 1:14:06
  We can just keep talking and we can just catch the end of the
• 1:14:10
  game and. An hour and a half, Yeah.
• 1:14:12
  Another hour and a half? No, Let's talk about Jack
• 1:14:14
  Leiter. And then we'll be close to
• 1:14:16
  getting out of here. We've gone deep here, Jack
• 1:14:20
  Leiter. Poor Kidman.
• 1:14:23
  Tell you what, poor kid. Yeah.
• 1:14:28
  He's O and one on the season he's he's had three starts and
• 1:14:32
  over those three starts he's accumulated an ERA of 1639 / 9
• 1:14:37
  and a third innings. He has just seven KS.
• 1:14:41
  He has a whopping WHIP of 2.571. And he is he is racked up a -1
• 1:14:49
  WAR. His 1639 ERA is the third
• 1:14:53
  highest ERA in Major League Baseball history. 3 pitchers,
• 1:14:57
  first three career starts going back to 1920.
• 1:15:03
  It's tough, man. And it's not like he's faced
• 1:15:07
  powerhouses. No disrespect to these teams,
• 1:15:09
  but like the Tigers, the A's and the and the guardians,
• 1:15:12
  respectively, If is what he's gotten, it's tough, man.
• 1:15:20
  I mean, the Guardians are a good team, but like, they're not
• 1:15:22
  going to, they're not going to go mashing baseballs around the
• 1:15:25
  around the. Diamond.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah, yeah, dude, just go get right.
• 1:15:34
  He's it's tough dude. He's undersized.
• 1:15:37
  He doesn't have that power arm. Then if you're not spotting up,
• 1:15:41
  like that's not it's not going to work.
• 1:15:43
  It's not going to work. So just go get right.
• 1:15:48
  It's unfortunate, but a little reality check, a little bit of a
• 1:15:52
  a gut check. I don't know, talk to dad more,
• 1:15:58
  figure out what's going on. He'll be fine.
• 1:16:01
  He'll be fine. I hope we need we need Jack
• 1:16:07
  Clyde to write, man. If like it, that'd be a good
• 1:16:09
  addition to the it'd be fun. The youth pitchers Arsenal.
• 1:16:15
  If you will. That that currently exists
• 1:16:20
  around the league because there's some there's some bright
• 1:16:22
  futures ahead and some some bright futures that are already
• 1:16:26
  under way I would say in regards to to the these some of these
• 1:16:31
  young names. But let's hope let's hope he he
• 1:16:35
  he turns around I think some some good conversations some
• 1:16:38
  good mechanical analysis and just maybe maybe some mental
• 1:16:42
  analysis you never know like we talked about you never know
• 1:16:45
  what's really going on under the under the hood.
• 1:16:47
  So hopefully gets it right. Last, last but not least, here.
• 1:16:53
  Weekend series to watch and we'll get you out of here.
• 1:16:56
  Starting off for me, I am going to be watching the Padres take
• 1:17:02
  on the Atlanta Braves this weekend if if I have the chance,
• 1:17:09
  which I think I will. It'll be a busy weekend, but
• 1:17:11
  I'll be able to put up, shut up, shut up.
• 1:17:14
  MLB app on the phone, man. You can watch anywhere.
• 1:17:17
  Not not to make it an ad, but Yep, that's that's a beautiful
• 1:17:21
  thing, man. You be on the toilet, you can be
• 1:17:22
  watching baseball. It's a beautiful thing.
• 1:17:24
  Don't tell anybody, but I absolutely put it up near the
• 1:17:27
  speedometer when I'm driving, so yeah.
• 1:17:34
  I'm going to refrain from commenting for for legal
• 1:17:36
  purposes. Game one, you got Matt Waldron
• 1:17:39
  versus Max free. That's at 7:20 PM.
• 1:17:42
  Game two, you've got you, Darvish.
• 1:17:45
  Oh, game one is Monday. I'm sorry.
• 1:17:47
  Friday, Matt Waldron versus Max free 720.
• 1:17:50
  Game two, you've got you. Darvish versus Bryce Elder at
• 1:17:53
  7:15 Eastern. Game three, you've got Randy
• 1:17:57
  Vasquez versus Ronaldo Lopez at 7:00 PM.
• 1:18:00
  That's Sunday night baseball. And game four, I don't care.
• 1:18:07
  It's on a Monday, so no excuse. It's on a Monday at 12:20 PM
• 1:18:12
  Eastern. I don't care what what fan
• 1:18:15
  you're or like what team you're a fan of, you need to be
• 1:18:18
  watching this game. Game four on Monday between the
• 1:18:21
  Padres and Braves features Dylan Cease and Chris Sale.
• 1:18:27
  Are you kidding me? Yes, that's amazing.
• 1:18:31
  That's 9:00 at my at my time. I'm not getting any work done.
• 1:18:36
  You're going to be waking up to this.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah, it's going to be great. What a day.
• 1:18:41
  That's my weekend series of watch.
• 1:18:43
  Mine is not nearly as understandable or fun, but my
• 1:18:49
  logic behind this, this is the this is the potential script
• 1:18:58
  flip series for the Cincinnati Reds, and I hate to say it, but
• 1:19:08
  like this four-game set against the Dodgers, they haven't won a
• 1:19:15
  series. I think I've looked back.
• 1:19:16
  They haven't won a series. It's been seven straight series
• 1:19:19
  of either tie or loss. They haven't won since like
• 1:19:23
  April 19th or 20th or something like that.
• 1:19:26
  Are you saying this is a statement series?
• 1:19:29
  For the Cincinnati Reds, this is a series where like if you can
• 1:19:33
  put together a good Series, A complete series against a World
• 1:19:37
  Series favorite, this could flip your season.
• 1:19:43
  They're two and eight in their last ten games.
• 1:19:45
  They're eight games back in the division.
• 1:19:47
  They're seven games under 500. They're -3 and run differential
• 1:19:54
  like nothing says this is a match up worth watching.
• 1:19:57
  What I'm saying is this is a match up that could ignite
• 1:20:02
  something. If the Reds can just figure it
• 1:20:05
  out if they can do well and I don't mean split, I need to see
• 1:20:09
  them win this series. And watch them become the team
• 1:20:13
  that everyone thought they were going to be.
• 1:20:15
  There's a lot of people that were high on the Reds becoming
• 1:20:17
  coming into the season so four-game.
• 1:20:21
  Set. I miss it.
• 1:20:22
  Did you Did you mention where this is at?
• 1:20:24
  Is it in? It's.
• 1:20:25
  In LA it is in California. Starts Thursday so manana today
• 1:20:31
  maybe for some of you four-game set.
• 1:20:34
  Don't know who's thrown to game one for for the Reds, but
• 1:20:37
  they're going against Glass now so that's a tough look.
• 1:20:41
  Frankie Montas going Friday for the Reds against James Paxton
• 1:20:46
  Saturday. You've got Graham Ashcraft going
• 1:20:49
  against Walker Buehler and Hunter Green against Yamamoto.
• 1:20:54
  That's Sunday. I would.
• 1:20:55
  I would try and lock that in. There you go.
• 1:20:59
  That's an afternoon game, 1:00 Pacific.
• 1:21:03
  Try to catch that one. That's a good one.
• 1:21:05
  But this is you know, Walker Buehler coming back hasn't quite
• 1:21:09
  settled in, hasn't gotten built up.
• 1:21:11
  James Paxton can have some clunkers every once in a while.
• 1:21:15
  Come on, Reds. Come on.
• 1:21:19
  You can. You can thank us.
• 1:21:21
  We've got your Sunday and Monday appointment television planned
• 1:21:25
  out for you. You didn't even.
• 1:21:26
  Otherwise, you're busy, you. Didn't even have to look around.
• 1:21:29
  We got it for you Sunday, Reds, I found.
• 1:21:31
  I found a secret. If you're a couple, if you're
• 1:21:36
  married or you know, significant other.
• 1:21:38
  If you're one of those where like you use Sundays like a
• 1:21:41
  cleaning chore day, just offer to clean the kitchen with the TV
• 1:21:49
  right there. If it's within view or audio
• 1:21:54
  view that doesn't work, audio distance, just say, hey babe, I
• 1:21:59
  got the kitchen, take your time, wipe down the stove, get inside
• 1:22:05
  that stove if you need to. Get the counters, wipe down the
• 1:22:10
  cabinets, get the fridge. You can get a couple innings in
• 1:22:13
  now. Get the brownie points and the
• 1:22:15
  baseball just a piece. Of advice there, just something
• 1:22:19
  I've I've since discovered. How about that?
• 1:22:22
  Look at you, man. You've been you've been married
• 1:22:25
  for for what, like a month, and you're already a pro?
• 1:22:28
  That's right. That's right.
• 1:22:30
  How about it? All right, that'll do it.
• 1:22:33
  Unless you got anything else, no.
• 1:22:36
  Stick. Stick with my boy Ron.
• 1:22:38
  Wash. Relax on that.
• 1:22:39
  OK, That's what I'm that's I'm going to bed tonight knowing
• 1:22:42
  that Ron Washington in baseball means baseball's better.
• 1:22:46
  So just relax and don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:22:52
  Love you all and it's always looking forward to talking more
• 1:22:54
  baseball with you guys. Soon.
• 1:22:55
  Until next time, stay filthy.